Here is a link to the interactive expedition map.
We decided to go a bit out of our way and visit Kodachrome State Park. We are driving over the top (north) of Bryce Canyon, and around the east side, down to the state park.
Pics taken through the window of a car are apt to be hazier than one might wish....
I think this is Aquarius Plateau, closer than we've ever been to it.
Note that someone lives there, with Aquarius Plateau as their back-yard view......
This is the sort of landscape one sees, just driving down the road. (Not in a park; just some random place in southern Utah.)
Wouldn't it be cool to know geology? I don't want to take the time to learn it, but I'd love to know what all of these rocks are, and how they were formed....
Driving into Kodachrome State Park.
Big flat landscape, with notably non-flat features.
This is the first place we'd seen rock features like this one, and it was the first place I was sure there were cattle on public land. You can see cows at the bottom.
Handsome auburn calf.
There's a cow in this next one, too.
And several more in this one, but far enough away they are hard to make out in this size image.
I wonder what this land looked like before cows. Was it this grassy? Or was something else growing here?
This video shows the wind, blowing the grass....
This was not the easiest place to drive. It was not scary (flat, no edges), but it was not paved, and it was dusty. I don't know that I'd be happy to drive a "regular car" (with regular suspension) in here.
These tall narrow rock formations were built differently from hoodoos. They look almost like they were made by dripping sopping-wet sand from a giant hand. Blobby rather than angular.
Grays and reds, but in different shapes than in Bryce.
Closer look at the above -- see what I mean, blobby?
There is a shaded picnic area (not in the pic, but nearby).
We lunched from our trusty cooler.
Our lunchtime view.
After lunch. Driving back to the park entrance.
Stopping and getting out to take pics.
Not a Michigan sort of landscape.....
A closer look at the formation at right, above.
Car windows make it hazier, and when they've got water spots all over them, they make it dotty, too.
But better than no pics at all, I think.
Here is a link to the next post about the Grand Canyon trip.
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